LGBT Health and Wellbeing – Well Proud

Monthly Archives: September 2015

Please get in touch if you would like to promote a not-for-profit event, activity, group or campaign you are involved with, for the transgender community anywhere across Scotland – jules@lgbthealth.org.uk

Bifest Scotland 2015

A festival to celebrate bisexuality, meet new friends, learn new things, and have fun!

What – an afternoon of bisexuality themed workshops and a Halloween themed party in the evening

LGBT Your community matters – Police Scotland engagement event

Wednesday 30th September, 6-7.30pmShepherd and Wedderburn, 1 Exchange Crescent, Conference Square, EdinburghCOPFS and Police Scotland welcome you to an evening of discussion and engagement on what matters to you. Come and have your say and help us make Edinburgh a safer place for the LGBT community. Register attendance at http://tinyurl.com/lgbt-matters

‘Out of Sight Out of Mind’ PresentsMixed media works by artists with lived experience of mental health issues

You are invited to a private view & local launch of the Scottish Mental Health Arts & Film Festival.

Upcoming Events for Queer, Trans and LGBTQI Communities in Edinburgh

Check out these five upcoming events for queer, trans and LGBTQI communities in Edinburgh. All events have BSL interpretation, wheelchair/level access & some AD too! All events are relaxed. Also, the arts group Cachín Cachán Cachunga! is raising funds to cover its accessible and intersectional queer & trans events for the season (#1, 2, 4 and 5 on this list). Our funds will hopefully also go towards travel for people outside of Edinburgh and for our health lottery which will give prizes like massages and haircuts to low-income queer and trans people.

Join Police Scotland

Police Scotland is committed to expanding the diversity of our workforce. If you’re looking for a career that will take you beyond your own expectations and give you the variety, challenge and reward that you are looking for then follow the link to find out more about how to apply.

You need to be 18 and older and identify as being trans. You do not need to have a mental health problem to take part. You also have a chance to be entered into a prize draw.

National Gender Identity Clinical Network for Scotland

The NGICNS annual meeting took place last month. There was a review of the activities of the network since its establishment a year ago. The steering group meets every 3 months and the minutes can be downloaded from the NGICNS website. At the annual meeting there was a suggestion to inform people on the contact list when new content is added to the website. If you would like to receive updates and details of upcoming events to attend you can request this via the contact form on the NGICNS website. Just fill in your details and ask to be added to the contact list.

Useful trans community links and resources

The Scottish Transgender Alliance works to improve gender identity and gender reassignment equality, rights and inclusion in Scotland. Click here to access a wealth of links and resources for the trans community. http://www.scottishtrans.org/resources/

We are delighted to announce that our LGBT Age Capacity Building Project has been awarded the Equality Initiative of the Year at the inaugural Scottish LGBTI awards held in Glasgow on Thursday 10th September 2015.

Funded by Reshaping Care for Older People’s Innovation Fund, the project was set up in response to the barriers that older LGBT people face in accessing services.

Our Deputy Director, Stacey Webster said,

“Older LGBT people have often been overlooked. They have lived a great part of their life in much less liberal times, and are frequently reluctant to use support services as they fear not feeling welcome or accepted.

The LGBT Age Capacity Building Project has brought to life the experiences that older LGBT face in accessing services and has been very successful in supporting organisations to provide services that are inclusive.”

In consultation with older members of the LGBT community and professionals working in health and social care services, we then launched a suite of a dozen resources to support older people’s services to become more welcoming and inclusive of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. The project also ran a series of seminars and events, alongside workplace training sessions in order to support organisations to provide the best services they can to older LGBT people.

These resources, alongside the Impact Report produced to share the learning of the project, form a supportive call for action: there is so much that can be done to improve the experience of using services for older LGBT people, and even small changes can make a big difference. We hope that these materials will help professionals to become allies and champions for the LGBT community, until LGBT people feel safe and welcome everywhere.

Key Funders

LGBT helpline 0300 123 2523

LGBT Health and Wellbeing, 9 Howe Street, Edinburgh, EH3 6TE
The LGBT Healthy Living Centre (known as LGBT Health and Wellbeing) is recognised as a charity by the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, no. SC034216.